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As of this morning, together with the police, the gendarmerie is patrolling the streets of Novi Pazar, and police reinforcements arrived in that city from nearby Kraljevo, reports Radio Free Europe.
“This morning I was walking around the city and I see that they are there, to carry out routine checks on the cars that pass through the streets,” Fahrudin Kladnicanin of Novi’s non-governmental academic initiative “Forum 10” told Radio Free Europe (RSE). Pazar.
Increased activities and participation of law enforcement agencies in this Bosnian-majority city, announced the day before by the Minister of the Interior of Serbia, Aleksandar Vulin, who visited Novi Pazar on December 17.
The visit of the Belgrade police delegation was preceded by a shooting in the center of Novi Pazar, in which one person was injured on 17 December.
Two days earlier, on December 15, two people were wounded in a shootout in front of the Police Administration building in Novi Pazar, and the police arrested the suspect, the Interior Ministry announced that same day.
After meeting with the head and heads of the Police Administration in Novi Pazar, Vulin said that “the state will not allow clashes between criminal gangs” and that “it will preserve the safety of all citizens.”
Although he describes the visit of the Police Minister as “populist”, Fahrudin Kladnicanin of the non-governmental “Forum 10” affirms that the security situation in Novi Pazar is not good.
“I believe that the institutions in Novi Pazar are quite weak and that there is no visible decisive response to address the various security challenges that surround this community,” Kladnicanin said.
The Police Minister also said in Novi Pazar that no political authority and political reasons “can stop us until we make Novi Pazar a safe and free city.”
“Unlike previous years, when each arrival of the police forces as a reaction of the State to the situation in Sandzak was received with distrust, today it is not like that because the political situation is different. Partners in this government are those parties that previously radicalized the situation in this community. which is, for example, Muamer Zukorlić’s party, “said Kladičanin.
The former mufti of one of the two Islamic communities in Serbia, Muamer Zukorlić, who was once a sharp critic of the Belgrade authorities, is today vice president of the Serbian Assembly, recalls the radio.
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